Today was a great day! I got up early, hit the gym, went to another hotel to get some of their free breakfast and then headed to meet some friends before going to the Garden District. We got day passes for the street car and were planning on a beautiful day touring uptown New Orleans. Well instead we experienced one of the scariest thunder storms any of us had ever been in..while on a cable car! The rain started the minute we boarded the first trolley. So we ditched our shoes right away and put on flip flops..good thing we brought those because we walked through puddles almost up to our knees! After a beautiful but scary and wet ride to the Garden district during an intense lightening storm we got off and had a delicious lunch at a little Mexican food place. There was an exotic ice cream shop the girls wanted to try and it was a lot farther than we thought. This was the part when we got off the street car at the beautiful and flooded park thinking we were only six blocks from it. It was definitely not six blocks! We finally found it and were soaked and very soggy! We had lots of laughs and fun times today on the street cars and city buses as well as being the only fools walking around in the rain. All the local stores were out of ponchos and we had 3 umbrellas for the four of us. When we got back downtown we wanted to shower and nap but that didn't happen because of the insanity with youth groups trying to get about the town in the pouring rain. I planned on staying down at the hotel where we've been working evening events but there was too much craziness I had to trek back across town to my hotel where we had pool furniture being thrown in the pool and the fire alarm going off! Sadly I didn't get to go back to the big hotel for evening events because we thought it'd be best to have some people stay at our hotel to make sure things were under control with the crazy weather . Things are mostly good here now. Some exhausted youth and some wild ones. I'm currently doing floor sweeps and updating my blog! I love this app!
Tired from a long but great day,
Amanda
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